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Of course, as has been stated many times on our webpage, one of our main goals is constructing a sound methodology to accurately measure and keep track of light pollution. We attempt to do this by means of analysis of various types of measurement equipment under numerous distinct skies - but, this i...

The KID network of measurement stations keeps growing and growing in size - yes, we keep busy. One of our latest additions is a special one, and has been set up on the island of Borkum, in Lower Saxony, Germany....

Last weekend, a team of Danish, Dutch and German scientists installed KID measurement stations in Denmark. The locations selected as pilot sites for the project include downtown Ribe, in Jutland, as a bright sky environment monitoring location, and the Wadden island of Mandø as a darker sky analysis...

This year’s European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky marks the 16th in a series of conferences, that bring experts together to take a stand against the increasing problem of light pollution. In 2024, the conference is to be held in Groningen, the Netherlands, and to be organised by the...

The figure presented here shows a couple of so-called Jellyfish plots. Together they summarise all sky brightness measurements (so far) in just one graph, which provides us with a nice overview. Here, each point in the plots represents a single measurement....

One of KID’s newest members is Farhan Shah, a research trainee with a background in environmental engineering. His interest in light pollution and the environmental impact thereof compelled him to join the project. ...

The Keep it Dark (KID) project first saw the light of day on October first 2022. Now, a little over a year later quite a few things have happened. In this first major project update we are going to go over all the general milestones achieved over the last fourteen months. Besides, from now on, the K...

Tune in for the launch of a new measuring station, set up on the island of Spiekeroog, a part of the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site just off the North Sea coast of Germany. The story of its roll out is told through various photographs made by the German KID team preparing the site. ...